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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: art slott who wrote (33463)	11/9/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Respond to of 74651

Oh now its Lotus, another loser company. What about their notes product that was going to lock in the world? Another company that could not execute and took its eye of the ball and purchased by IBM for a notes product that has been superceded by the market. Loser + Loser = An even bigger Loser. Regards,

To: art slott who wrote (33463)	11/9/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

>> I'll say it again, OS2 which was the better OS << And I liked windows. I guess that's what makes a market place. And I had the choice, I did not go with lotus spreadsheet because I couldn't figure out which of the 23 new versions was the least obtuse, so I continued using my old version, and I didn't use notes because although the concept was excellent, the guts of it was really email, and IBM software was needlessly complicated, and very expensive. Remember RPG? And in the early years, MS worked for IBM. IBM could have squashed them like a bug. This is not exactly a position of strength. These are the facts. The article and the findings of fact exaggerate MS's market power at that time.